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Plant Cydonia oblonga (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Quince
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALDOBIONIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
AMYGDALIN 8 Seed not available 4000.0 -1.15 Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 100.0 960.0 -0.22 Duke, 1992 *
ASH 0 Fruit not available 3000.0 -1.39 Duke, 1992 *
ASH 0 Seed not available 13000.0 -1.05 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.0 16.0 -0.12 Duke, 1992 *
BORON 4 Fruit 85.0 160.0 2.42 Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 60.0 805.0 -0.70 Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 119000.0 951000.0 0.90 Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EMULSIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Fruit 1000.0 17000.0 -0.51 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Seed 140000.0 192000.0 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Fruit 17000.0 178000.0 0.34 Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Fruit 6.0 52.0 -0.32 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antimastitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine 3 Martindale's 29th
Antimitotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiMS 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyocarditic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antinauseant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antineoplastic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antineuralgic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antineuramidase 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antineurasthenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antineuritic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antineuropathic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.